[hoary] prelinking

[Ed Cogburn]

Senectus . wrote:

> On 6/16/05, Thilo Six <T.Six at gmx.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello everyone
>> 
>> >
>> > I've a question about prelinking.
>> >
>> > I've followed this instructions:
>> > http://kudos.berlios.de/kf/kisimlar/tipsntrix.html#prelink
>> 
>> Just in case your are interested in prelink.
>> Think twice before you use it.
>> 
>> I had some really bad problems with my box after prelinking
>> the whole system.
>> It randomly froze complete. I couldn't even enter console.
>> I had to hard reset my box several times.  :(
>> 
>> >
>> > 3) Howto undo prelinking?
>> 
>> even "prelink -ua" (unlink) did not help.
>> Today I was busy to recover my backups.
> Prelinking is also very bad for wine and cedega (if your into the gaming
> scene)


Well, prelink works for some people extremely well.  I've been using it for
about a year now, have a cron job that does it automatically every 3 days. 
If some apps have a problem with it, you can always put them on prelink's
black list.